seol1500

Join Date 06/2009

How do you manage multiple vessels?

Hello,

I am in mid-end stage of a game with 273 vessels. (and more coming..)

Yet I am slow on the logisitics tech - I can only make fleet size of 15.

This means it takes painstaking efforts to group vessels and move them manually every turn.

Is there a command to order all my ships to group accrodingly and move/attack a given point?

Rally point doesn't ssem to work either. my vessels just stay on the planet it made from.

(I turned on automactic launch from the option menu)

further is thee a way to skip entire attacking animation like civilization 4/5 ?

Many thanks in advance.

Locked Post

Advanced Search

Watch this post

Do not email me updates for this post Email me updates for this post

Successfully updated karma reason!

MarvinKosh

Join Date 08/2005

+87

Rally points do work but you need to turn them on for the planet producing a ship that you want to fleet up. You can also use the governor screen to tell planets with no rally point to send ships to a particular rally point, or change the rally point for all planets producing a particular design.

When you create or edit a rally point (RP) you can set it to Fleet. This means that when ships arrive at the RP they will join up with existing fleets if there is room, or create new fleets automatically if no fleets have room. It will be up to you to direct them after that, however.

You can set an RP on an enemy planet or starbase and ships with a rally point order for that RP will attack it. However any ships that have finished moving to that target will obviously not attack again even if you move the rally point.

Successfully updated karma reason!

You can also select multiple fleets at the same time and give them an order. Hold the shift key and draw a frame around the fleets you want to select. After that is done, just right-click on the destination.

It isn't necessary to manually move the ships each turn, if you want them to go to a distant location. Just click on the destination and they will automatically move at the end of each turn until they arrive.

Regarding the combat animation: You can disable it in the Options under Interface. Just deselect 'Full Fleet Battles'. If necessary, you can also disable the short battle sequences by deselecting 'Show Battle Sequence'.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Is there a "move all" button? I have a miner on automine, 2 scouts on auto scout and one surveyor flagship on auto. Is there a way to make them all move at once or do I have to right click on them all to get them to move.

Thanks

Successfully updated karma reason!

Quoting Tracid420,

reply 3

Is there a "move all" button?

No, there isn't. However, they will move automatically once you hit the Turn button, so you don't have to move them all manually.

Successfully updated karma reason!

The only time spaceminer/scouts/surveyors stop when on auto is when they can no longer improve mines (need space mining 1-3),scouting when they either max their range or uncover the entire map (depends on life support/range/size of map),surveyors/flagships go into standy mode till more anomalies pop up which they do throughout a entire game unless disabled in game menu. as Gaunathor said^

Successfully updated karma reason!

Is there a command to order all my ships to group accrodingly and move/attack a given point?

In the "Civilization Manager" screen, click the "Governors" tab. There you can reroute all ships of a given type (I have used this mainly for mobilizing my transports to an unexpected new warzone; I believe they can only be rerouted to a rally point). There you can also multi-change other stuff such as shipbuilding and ( as MarvinKosh replied) colony rally points.

This means it takes painstaking efforts to group vessels and move them manually every turn.

I click "launch all ships" at the beginning of a turn, then I put all lone ships on "guard" (shortcut key "G") or join it into a fleet (select all then shortcut key "F") with a previous guarding ship. Inefficient having idle ships but they can all be moved later as one fleet. Best for constructors because also the starbase upgrade window only needs to open once for the whole fleet.

[EDIT 10 May:] Easier manually, but also easier for older computers which are slowed down by many individual ships with orders.

Successfully updated karma reason!